Christmas Observations from Turramurra

Hi all & Seasons Greetings
observations from my deck in Turramurra (N Sydney) this afternoon whilst
enjoying a cup of tea and a mince pie - first over at 4pm was a Black Kite -
this sounds out of place for Sydney, but it was a lightly built raptor,
pretty much a uniform pale brown colour with no noticeable patterns or paler
marks on the underwing and had a long, straight sided and deeply forked
tail, so I'd struggle to make it anything else.
This was followed at 4:20pm by a large (100+) flock of White Throated
needletails - they came up from the E/NE and disappeared to the W/SW, so
were moving into or slightly across the W/NW the breeze. Birds at all
levels - including rooftop height when one could hear them ripping through
the air. No Fork Taileds in with them, although a couple of tree martins
caused a bit of excitement when I first spotted smaller birds in with the
WTNTs.
Had our picnic lunch out at West Head in Ku-Ring-Gai NP today - there was
not much about. The Koolewong Track opposite the Resolute Picnic area has
been re-opened, but our walk down to the lookout revealed neither Glossy
Blacks nor signs of recent visits (ie no chewed Casuarina nuts which I have
found often on that track before).
Cheers
Tom Wilson
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